Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Seems like a reasonable assumption to me....

In “The Pregnant Widow,” [author Martin] Amis makes many of the same mistakes [Jane Smiley] did [in her novel, "Ten Days in the Hills”] -- most notably, assuming that readers will be interested in a bunch of spoiled, self-absorbed twits, who natter on endlessly about their desires and resentments and body parts...﻿ Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A mistake? I haven't read the book, but to me this assumption sounds like a canny -- well, OK, pretty obvious, really -- reading of the public's obsession with petty, nattering twits with hyperactive body parts. Reality TV, anyone?

Posted at 09:38:10 AM

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Oh good, a bad review from Kakutani. That means I need to go out and buy the book right now, as I've never failed to like novels that she slams with unnecessary hyperbole and bile.

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